Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XVIII, 260 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - In a welcome approach to the study of leadership and organizational change, the authors focus their observations around the experiences of Dr. Greenblatt, who served as superintendent of a large state hospital during four years of difficult change. The book captures his administrative experiences in dealing with a wide variety of issues common to many different kinds of public-service organizations such as schools, youth boards, welfare agencies, prisons, and general hospitals, as well as mental health facilities. The study interweaves vivid narrative descriptions of the process of change with theoretical discussions. Some of the general issues include: the turmoil of management succession, the pacing of change, staff resistance to change, the strategy and tactics of decentralizing a large bureaucratic organization, and the meshing of enthusiastic volunteers with professionalized regular employees. Readers particularly interested in problems of mental illness will find a wealth of material on key current issues in the field. Above all, however, the authors are haunted by and focus on issues which embroil the nation: how to make our large service organizations more alive and responsive to human needs and how to make rapid strides in unleashing human energies from rigid bureaucratic molds, at the same time preserving some overall framework of organizational stability.